diff --git a/docs/_config.yml b/docs/_config.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index a456b605..00000000
--- a/docs/_config.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-theme: jekyll-theme-slate
-title: The VIPS image processing library
-description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
-  libvips is a 2D image processing library. Compared to
-  similar libraries, libvips runs quickly and uses little
-  memory.  libvips is licensed under the LGPL 2.1+.
-baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
-url: "" # the base hostname & protocol for your site, e.g. http://example.com
-github_username:  jcupitt
-
-# Build settings
-markdown: kramdown
-gems:
-  - jekyll-feed
diff --git a/docs/_layouts/default.html b/docs/_layouts/default.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e9c4292..00000000
--- a/docs/_layouts/default.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html>
-<html lang="en-us">
-  <head>
-    <meta charset="UTF-8">
-    <title>{{ page.title | default: site.title }}</title>
-    <meta name="description" content="{{ page.description | default: site.description | default: site.github.project_tagline }}"/>
-    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
-    <meta name="theme-color" content="#157878">
-    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ '/assets/css/style.css?v=' | append: site.github.build_revision | relative_url }}">
-  </head>
-  <body>
-    <section class="page-header">
-      <h1 class="project-name">{{ site.title | default: site.github.repository_name }}</h1>
-      <h2 class="project-tagline">{{ site.description | default: site.github.project_tagline }}</h2>
-      {% if site.github.is_project_page %}
-        <a href="{{ site.github.repository_url }}" class="btn">View on GitHub</a>
-      {% endif %}
-      {% if site.show_downloads %}
-        <a href="{{ site.github.zip_url }}" class="btn">Download .zip</a>
-        <a href="{{ site.github.tar_url }}" class="btn">Download .tar.gz</a>
-      {% endif %}
-    </section>
-
-    <section class="main-content">
-      {{ content }}
-
-      <footer class="site-footer">
-        {% if site.github.is_project_page %}
-          <span class="site-footer-owner"><a href="{{ site.github.repository_url }}">{{ site.github.repository_name }}</a> is maintained by <a href="{{ site.github.owner_url }}">{{ site.github.owner_name }}</a>.</span>
-        {% endif %}
-        <span class="site-footer-credits">This page was generated by <a href="https://pages.github.com">GitHub Pages</a>.</span>
-      </footer>
-    </section>
-
-    {% if site.google_analytics %}
-      <script type="text/javascript">
-        (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
-        (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
-        m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
-        })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
-
-        ga('create', '{{ site.google_analytics }}', 'auto');
-        ga('send', 'pageview');
-      </script>
-    {% endif %}
-  </body>
-</html>
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e4d427d2..00000000
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: home
----
diff --git a/whatsnew-8.5.md b/whatsnew-8.5.md
index c8fea323..b6b1b2ee 100644
--- a/whatsnew-8.5.md
+++ b/whatsnew-8.5.md
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ The new thumbnail operator has also picked up some useful features:
 
 * **Smart crop** A new cropping mode called `attention` searches the image for
   edges, skin tones and areas of saturated colour, and attempts to position the
-  crop box over the most significant feature. 
+  crop box over the most significant feature. There's a `vips_smartcrop()`
+  operator as well.
 
 * **Crop constraints** Thanks to tomasc, libvips has crop constraints. You 
   can set it to only thumbnail if the image is larger or smaller than the target 
